To:D. B. RYAZANOV

Written:Written on September 23, 1921Published:First published in 1959 inLenin Miscellany XXXVI.

      Sent to Berlin.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1976,

      Moscow,Volume 45,

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ComradeRyazanov:

Ivery stronglysupport Comrade Adoratsky’s request,
who has done a great deal of useful
work.[1]It is important
to collectallthe letters of Marx and Engels, and no one
will do this better than you.

Withcommunist greetings,Lenin

[1]V.V.Adoratsky, who, on Lenin’s assignment, was working on
a collection of selected letters of Marx and Engels, asked D. B.
Ryazanov, then in Germany, to collect all the published letters of
Marx and Engels and send them to Russia. The collection was
published in 1922 under the titlePisma. Teoria i politika v
perepiske Marksa i Engelsa(Letters. Theory and Politics in the
Correspondence of Marx and Engels). Translation, introductory
article and notes by V. V. Adoratsky.